Brown's year just keeps on getting better

Published 6:30 am, Monday, January 30, 2006

Brown, whose Texas Longhorns defeated Southern Cal 41-38 in the Rose Bowl for the national championship this month, will receive a raise that will make him the third-highest-paid college football coach in the country.

Brown, 54, will receive a bump to at least $2.5 million from the $2.159 million he earned this past season, the first of a 10-year contract extension he received after the 2004 campaign.

"We've always wanted to keep him in the top five in the country, where he belongs," UT athletic director DeLoss Dodds told the Austin American-Statesman.